GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 47063
Zooming in to the center of the view has undesirable effects when viewing one item
Last modified: 2009-08-15 18:40:50 UTC
In a directory with one item, zooming in by the center of the view has an undesired effect. Say the directory layout is anything other than manual, and the single icon appears at the top-left. Zooming in to the center of this view will leave the only interesting item in the view out in the cold of non-visible scroll margins. To reproduce: 1 - In icon view, view a directory with one icon, not with manual layout. 2 - Zoom to a higher zoom level Notice that the icon will be partially obscured, if not entirely, and the scrollbars indicate that the absolute center of the view is currently shown. It would be nice if Nautilus could determine the true "center of the action" for directories. In a very full directory, zooming in to the absolute center of the current viewable region is the best method. But in a directory with one icon, for example, the center of the action is that single icon itself up in the top left corner. This is definitely not a 1.0 bug. ------- Additional Comments From sullivan@eazel.com 2001-03-09 15:42:49 ---- See related bug 47632. ------- Additional Comments From eli@eazel.com 2001-03-26 11:19:01 ---- SPAAAAAAAAAM! (Jon Allen has taken these components; QA Assigning bugs to him.) ------- Bug moved to this database by unknown@bugzilla.gnome.org 2001-09-09 21:03 -------
Changing to "old" target milestone for all bugs laying around with no milestone set.
I'm not convinced that the top left is the "center of action". If anything, the name of the file is pretty important so one could argue that it should be zoomed in on. I tend to think that a user simply wouldn't keep zooming in on a directory with a single icon. The icon is guarenteed to be in view at any zoom level with non-manual layout so zooming in accomplishes nothing, right?
When zooming in/out whatever in list or icon-view, a single icon is always visible. Assuming this is fixed, so closing the bug.